Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts into orbit and to the Moon, played a ...

The SpaceMath@NASA mathematics resource for teachers and students recently achieved a landmark number of downloads. On Feb. 23, 2011, a visitor downloaded the 3 millionth mathematics problem set from ...

NASA is testing an innovative approach to help improve student performance in mathematics by challenging them to solve the real-world problems involved with controlling airplanes in the sky. During ...

(CNN) – By the time NASA was preparing to send John Glenn to space for the historic Mercury-Atlas 6 mission computers were used to calculate launch conditions. It wasn’t long before then that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA notes that the event challenge and not a contest. Attention creative souls! While NASA might feel like an exclusive den of ...

NASA named 50 schools throughout the country on Tuesday for a program the space agency hopes will encourage students to study science, math and technology. The schools taking part in a three-year ...

NASA succeeded in its Moon landing mission 50 years ago tomorrow on July 20, 1969. The historic Apollo 11 mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly to the Moon and ...